Tag for bottles, &amp;c.



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Patented July l6, l90l.

0. H. B. VUIGT.

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OTTO I-IEINR. CHRIST. VOIGT, OF LUBECK, GERMANY.

TAG FDR BOTTLES, 8 00.

.SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,830, dated July 16, 1901.

Application filed May 9, 1901. Serial No. 59,5 21. (N0 model.)

T0 on whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO HEINRICH Cums- TIAN VOIGT, a citizen of the free city of Lubeck, residing at Lubeck, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tags for Bottles, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improved means for attaching price and such like tickets to different articles, such as bottles, &c., displayed in shop-windows and other places. The tickets can be attached to the articles without injuring them in any way or damaging their appearance. The tickets can be printed or written on in the usual manner with prices, 850.

The characteristic feature of the invention is that a band made of india-rubber or other appropriate elastic material or a device equivalent to such a band is secured to the back of the usual window-ticket or such like in such a manner that it can be readily interchanged when necessary and also readily remove when the ticket is to be printed or written upon, so as to avoid inconvenient bulges on the surface of the ticket.

The invention is illustrated on the drawings annexed, which show by way of example one convenient method of securing a rubber band to the back of a window-ticket such as is generally used for indicating the price of a bottle of wine or the like.

Figure 1 is a view of the back of the ticket. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the cen ter of the ticket.

It will be seen from the drawings that a tongue I), made of paper or other similar ma terial, is' secured to the back of the ticket by means of a strip 0, which is gummed over its upper end and to the back of the ticket at. A strip 01 is also gummed to the back of the ticket just below the strip cand parallel with it. The ends only of the strip dare gummed to the ticket, so that a free passage is left at the center for the lower end of the tongue to pass through, the strip serving as a keeper for the tongue, and the latter serves as the means for securing the attaching device removably to the ticket. The attaching device may consist of an endless india-rubber band 0, an endless spiral wire, or other appropriate elastic spring clamping arrangement capable of embracing objects of different shapes and diameters. The attaching device is secured to the ticket in the manner hereinbefore described in order that it may be readily removed whenever the ticket is to be written or printed upon, so as to leave a fiat surface for the printing or writing. If desired, the endless elastic band could be replaced by a bind ing-ribbon secured in a similar manner to the back of the ticket by means of a tongue 6 or the equivalent thereof. The ribbon, however, would have to be tied or bound around the object, whereas the elastic rubber band only requires to be stretched around the object and adapts itself thereto.

. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention and in What manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I consider novel and de sire to claim is- 1. In combination with a ticket or label, of a tongue of suitable material, a strip for attaching one end of said tongue to said ticket, and a keeper-strip attached to the same face of the ticket at each of its ends, and adapted to have the free end of the tongue confined between said keeper and ticket, and a band detachably held between the tongue and ticket, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture the within-described sale-ticket provided with a tongue, a strip for attaching one end of said tongue to the ticket, and a retaining-keeper attached to the same face of the ticket at each of its ends, whereby the loose end of the tongue may be confined between said keeper and ticket, the whole adapted to be attached to a band, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

OTTO HEINR. CHRIST. VOlGT.

Witnesses:

GusTAv WEBER, E. H. L. MUMMENHOFF. 

